About Me
I am a Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Information Technology (VNU-HCM). My work spans Speech Processing, Multilingual NLP, and Low-resource Language Technologies, with a broader goal of building practical and culturally-grounded AI systems that support communication across underrepresented languages.
Experience
Visiting Scholar
Michigan State University, USA
Collaborating on a project focused on leveraging in-context learning for idiom-aware machine translation.
Laboratory Assistant
HA3CI Laboratory, JAIST, Japan
Engaging in research efforts for a master's project on direct speech-to-speech translation.
Lecturer
University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam
Mentoring students, designing curriculum, and supervising research projects on speech translation.
Teaching Assistant
University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam
Assisting in conducting practical classes for undergraduate students.
Education
MSc. in Information Science
JAIST, Japan
Thesis: Zero-resourced Speech-to-Speech Translation for Unpaired and Untranscribed Languages Based on Visually Grounded Self-Supervised Speech Models (Grade: 100/100)
BSc. in Information Technology
VNU-HCM
Thesis: Constructive and Toxic Speech Detection for Open-domain Social Media Comments in Vietnamese (Grade: 9.9/10)
Selected Publications
Don't Take it Literally! Idiom-aware Vietnamese Translation via In-context Learning
Luan Thanh Nguyen, Parisa Kordjamshidi
ViToSA: Audio-Based Toxic Spans Detection on Vietnamese Speech Utterances
Huy Ba Do, Vy Le-Phuong Huynh, Luan Thanh Nguyen
IEEE Access 2025ZeST: A Zero-resourced Speech-to-Speech Translation Approach
Luan Thanh Nguyen, Sakriani Sakti
EMNLP 2024Multi-Dialect Vietnamese: Task, Dataset, Baseline Models and Challenges
Nguyen Van Dinh, Thanh Chi Dang, Luan Thanh Nguyen, Kiet Van Nguyen
ACL 2024ViHateT5: Enhancing Hate Speech Detection in Vietnamese
Luan Thanh Nguyen
Honors & Awards
Nominated Visiting Scholar - USAID PHER Program
Funded $10,800
Outstanding Dedications and Contributions in Research
HA3CI Laboratory @ JAIST, Japan
Fully-funded Scholarship for Master Program
JAIST, Japan ($10,000)
Excellent Achievement in Scientific Research
VinIF, Vietnam ($5,000)
Valedictorian in Information Technology
UIT @ VNU-HCM
Academic Services
Conference Reviewer
ACL-SRW'25, Regular ACL ARR (2024, 2025), ICASSP'25
Organizer
VLSP'21 - ViMRC Challenge